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We have a tiny garden. We live smack-dab in the middle of a medium-sized city, so we don’t have the room for a huge garden like I’d like. That’s probably a good thing, as I don’t know if I’d be able to keep up with much of a bigger garden than we have! Early this…

My kids are pretty picky eaters. They weren’t always that way though. There was a time when Ottergirl was a toddler, that she and Rocketboy would get into the garden and eat all my tomatoes before I could even harvest them. It’d become a backyard tradition for them: go out to play, snack on some fresh…

I’ve planted tomatoes every spring for as long as I can remember. There’s just something wonderful about that bright deep red color you get when you slice into a home-grown tomato. And the sweetness… it’s something the grocery store doesn’t even come close to matching. I even love the scent of a tomato plant. You…

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